Liverpool Football Club is an English football club based in the Merseyside city of Liverpool. They currently feature in the English Premier League and are the most successful football club in English football history.

Liverpool have won a record 18 first division titles (although not a single Premier League crown), five European Cups, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups.

Liverpool were founded on March 15,1892 by John Houlding and immediately won the Lancashire League and was elected to the Football League Second Division for the 1893-1894 season.

Liverpool won their first Football League championship in the 1900-1901 season and then again in 1905-1906. The club were champions again in 1921-1922 and 1922-1923. After winning the league in the 1946-1947 season, Liverpool sank into a decline and recovered only after a certain Bill Shankly was appointed the manager of Liverpool in December 1959.

ShShankly guided Liverpool to promotion to the first division and won the league title in 1963-1964, 1965-1966 and won their first ever European trophy, the UEFA Cup, in the 1972-1973 season.

Liverpool have since been winning trophies galore, both in England and in Europe and in the 1980s established as the force in Euroepan football when they rampaged all European sides in the old European Cup(now called the UEFA Champions League).

But the Heysel Stadium disaster of 1985 saw Liverpool being banned from European competitions for six years. Liverpool fans were at the heart of the Hillsborough Disaster in April 1989 during the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

Liverpool might not have won any Premier League trophy so far but they have been a consistent force in European and English football. Liverpool won five trophies in 2001, including the 2001 UEFA Cup, and then won the 2005 UEFA Champions League against AC Milan in dramatic fashion, coming from 3-0 down to take the match to penalties. The club reached the UEFA Champions League 2007 final but this time they lost to AC Milan.

Liverpool play their home matches at the legendary Anfield, which can host 45,362 people. Liverpool shall move to a new Stadium, the Stanley Park stadium, soon.

Liverpool are nicknames the Reds and foster huge rivalry with Manchester United and their city rivals Everton.

Some of the club’s major achievements include:

18 Football League First Division
7 FA Cups
7 League Cups
15 FA Community Shields
5 European Cup/UEFA Champions League
3 UEFA Cup
3 UEFA Super Cup